Name the wood!!

[Dan B]

Geoff?

 

[buldog5151bass]

In the rear cavity, it looks like it was taped off in order to stain - or is is foil tape? Can't tell by the photo. What is the color in there, OP? If it is light, you definitely have ash. Can you remove the neck?

 

[loveandbass]

this bass has a "homemade ken smith" vibe happening

 

[Old Blastard]

In the rear cavity *giggle*

 

[Bob Coldwell]

Wow, I didn't realize there were so many twelve year olds on Talkbass.

 

[woody357]

That's a big a*+ bass, hahahahaha dang

 

[Rumblefisher]

stained ash

 

[Tyso]

2 piece walnut body, one piece maple neck, rosewood fingerboard.

Yup. Control cavity is a dead giveaway for the body - definitely not ash.

Is that a walnut veneer on the headstock, or dark stain on the maple? Hard to tell from the picture, but my guess is the latter.

 

[SteveV74]

Morning.

 

[scourgeofgod]

Morning.

 

[RED J]

Wow, I didn't realize there were so many twelve year olds on Talkbass.

Ain't from around here, are ya ?

 

[SteveV74]

 

[SteveV74]

Im 40, will be 12 in August

 

[Tyso]

2 piece walnut body, one piece maple neck, rosewood fingerboard.

I just looked closer and the neck is actually two-piece - the headstock has a lamination line. This leads me to believe there is a very thin veneer after all.

 

[Matt O]

Yup. Control cavity is a dead giveaway for the body - definitely not ash.

Is that a walnut veneer on the headstock, or dark stain on the maple? Hard to tell from the picture, but my guess is the latter.

Pretty sure the face of the headstock is rosewood. Looks like the fretboard is chopped into a rabbet at the nut and the thinned section widens and runs to the end of the headstock. Or it's a different piece of rosewood after the nut.

 

[DigitalMan]

Is the body really as crooked to the neck as it appears in pic #3?

 

[Tyso]

Pretty sure the face of the headstock is rosewood. Looks like the fretboard is chopped into a rabbet at the nut and the thinned section widens and runs to the end of the headstock. Or it's a different piece of rosewood after the nut.

You're right, that is rosewood, same as the cover for the control cavity.

 

[bholder]

The give away is the unoiled wood under the plate in back. Not the shielded area, but around it. That looks like raw walnut to me. The grain is very similar to a lot of plain sawn walnut that I have use in my furniture building which is what I do when I'm not playing bass. That body sure looks like oiled walnut, the spot near the pickup is most likely a dry spot where the oil needs touching up. Just my opinion of course. Here's a pic of some oiled walnut that looks similar:
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Ok, yeah - until I saw that, I was going to go with "ash stained dark walnut".

 

[Dan B]

Is the body really as crooked to the neck as it appears in pic #3?

Good thing I wasn't the only one who saw that. That looks like one crooked neck.

 

[Nev375]

Wow, I didn't realize there were so many twelve year olds on Talkbass.

I know what you are, but what am I?